I find it hard to belive that Jetstart doesn't support Static IP's. The
ony real difference between Jetstart and Jetstream is one is rate limited.
The real reason would be that Telecom doesn't want people running
webservers or running ISP's from a Jetstart line :)
> They allowing you to have static ips with jetstart? Apparently the
> techonology doesn't support static ip's but for half a month (telecom put my
> account over to jetstart early) i was on paradise.net with jetstart and a
> static ip, this only happened because it was surposed to switch over at the
> end of my billing cycle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org]On
> Behalf Of Chris Hellberg
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 February 2001 5:09 p.m.
> To: aaronm@firesecurity.co.nz; david@rebirthing.co.nz
> Cc: adsl@unixathome.org
> Subject: RE: Other ISPs permit servers
>
>
> >>> "Aaron Martin" <aaronm@firesecurity.co.nz> 02/28/01 04:42p.m. >>>
> I have 8 jetstream and 1 jetstart connections with World-net, and I
> have had
> no problems at all with them over the last 14 months. Apart from the
> fact
> that they speak very little english! Email is the only way to deal
> with
> them, on the phone they are impossible!
>
> Also their pricing is better than any other ISP, they give static ip's
> free,
> and they changed the reverse resolve on all my static ip's to reflect
> the
> FQDN that I have allocated each ip!
>
> e.g. Our napier branch has FQDN of napier.firesecurity.co.nz , ip
> 210.55.228.219
> The reverse lookup of that ip is napier.firesecurity.co.nz rather than
> adsl-219.world-net.co.nz as it used to be. And all this is for free.
>
> Paradise did the same with my static for nothing, although admittedly
> it was
> only for one ip address, but I doubt it would make too many odds how
> many
> ips you get changed.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McNab [mailto:david@rebirthing.co.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 16:19
> To: adsl@unixathome.org
> Subject: Other ISPs permit servers
>
>
> > > Apparently, Xtra's rule against running a server only applies to
> the
> > > dial-up accounts. No mention of it in JetStream/JetStart accounts.
>
> > http://www.xtrasite.co.nz/jetstart/terms.html
>
> Oops - my apologies - I missed that completely on the Xtra site.
> I stand corrected.
>
> Anyway, I spoke to an Xtra Public Relations rep, Mary Parker,
> who agreed to be quoted as saying that:
>
> "Xtra offers JetStart as a 'consumer product'.
> "Xtra views the running of internet servers (such as web, ftp etc)
> as an inherently 'commercial activity', and not within the scope of a
> 'residential product' such as JetStart." Ms. Parker pointed out that
> this
> policy is not necessarily permanent.
>
> (my interpretation of this is that Xtra sells server products eg web
> hosting,
> and perceives personal servers as 'competition').
>
> Meanwhile, I've been combing through fine print of other ISPs
> supporting
> JetStart/JetStream.
>
> >From what I can see, Inspire.net bans spam and any law-breaking
> traffic, but
> have no rule against servers.
>
> Also, World-net have confirmed with me that they allow unlimited
> traffic,
> and have no problems with people running servers. They only oppose
> "Abuse of
> the service e.g. sending Spam, Hacking". Lastly, World-net are
> $5/month
> cheaper than Xtra.
>
> It looks I'll be 'defecting' to World-Net.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
>
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